From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6815 invoked by alias); 26 Apr 2005 08:05:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 6795 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2005 08:05:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (84.148.29.7) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 26 Apr 2005 08:05:10 -0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 8D459544015; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:05:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:02:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygrunsrv Message-ID: <20050426080508.GA2663@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg01124.txt.bz2 On Apr 25 07:10, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > In testing out my keychain service on a new XP system, I was thinking about > all of the questions > that have shown up on the cygwin@... list in the past about launching a > service from a user-id other than SYSTEM. And...I was wondering how you(s) > felt about adding the ability for cygrunsrv to change user-id before > running the target application. It sounds a bit confusing to me. The result are two different ways to install a service as user with one of them somewhat obfuscated. > Are there any negatives to doing it? Is there any additional gain over installing as user? > Or...Corinna...if it is easy, is this something that you would consider > adding? This is a clear case of http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC The sources of cygrunsrv are in CVS on sourceware as module "cygrunsrv" in the repository :pserver:anoncvs@cygwin.com:/cvs/cygwin-apps. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/